The document presents an overview of the group reporting solution embedded within SAP S/4HANA, aimed at enhancing financial closing efficiency through continuous accounting and a unified reporting system. Key benefits include real-time integration, reduced total cost of ownership, and streamlined data validation and elimination processes, with a focus on data consistency and predictive analytics. The solution supports collaboration beyond corporate boundaries and is designed for rapid implementation and adaptation to changes.

1. Group Reporting
Solution A new way to enables
companies to finish the financial
Closing faster and make Simultaneous
legal and management consolidation
Monday, December 27, 2017
A Presentation by George Kordosis
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2. Consolidation application embedded
within SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Group
Reporting
Standalone on premise application
Consolidation application embedded
within SAP S/4HANA (on premise) BPC Optimized
Consolidation : What has changed
Before
BPC (all versions)
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3. Key Benefits as Compared to Traditional Stand-alone Consolidation applications
Continuous Accounting:
• Accelerated Financial Closing
• Facilitates predictive
accounting
• Greater focus during close on
analysis as opposed to data
processing
Engineered for Cloud:
• Analysts predict 60% of
large enterprises will run
financial consolidation in
the cloud by 2020
• Cost-efficient resource
sharing and automated
operations
• Easy to implement, fast
adoption of changes
• Collaborate beyond
corporate boundaries
Single unified Financial
reporting solution:
• Seamlessly integrating local
operational and group level data
for greater visibility and
understanding
• Dynamic drill-down to
underlying transactions (data
lineage)
• Ensures data consistency,
eliminating time consuming data
reconciliation and explanation of
variances.
Reduced TCO:
• Common user experience,
process support, reporting
tools
• Common administration and
skill sets
• Single shared environment
• Reduction / Elimination of
data modeling and
management of data
movements and replication
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4. Topic Available with 1808 release of S/4HANA Group Reporting - Public Cloud
Data Collection Real time Integration from S/4HANA accounting, file upload, manual data entry, API
Currency Translation Cumulative and periodic translation, average / spot / historic rates, rounding rules, carry over translation from accounting
Data Validation Local data, translated data, consolidated data, master data combinations (a.k.a. breakdown) checks
Manual journal entries Direct entry or file upload including deferred tax calculation
Eliminations Rule-based eliminations driven by master data (similar to BPC), Intercompany Reconciliation report with drill-down to
accounting document
Consolidation of Investments Rule-based approach (similar to BPC) for main activities (first cons, subsequent minority calculation, ...) but based on
Activity Concept
Reporting Fiori Analytics, rule-based reports for e.g. cash flow or other comprehensive income, flexible extension to accounting
details, integration with SAP Analytics Cloud
Planning Multi-period consolidation, flexible versions, bottom-up reading from ACDOCP / SAP Analytics Cloud
Restatements Via versions and data copy
Collaboration Basic co-pilot scenarios, commentary in validation
Data model and master data Wide data model covering business fields of delivered universal journal, consolidation-specific master data for non
S/4HANA companies and simulation, time-dependent hierarchy and account mapping
Process control Dedicated monitor for subsidiary steps + central consolidation
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Summary of current key capabilities S/4HANA for Group Reporting

5. Content includes
• Master data including organizational hierarchy, FS item, mapping between FS items and GL
accounts, transaction types, etc.
• Rules for currency translation
• Rules for inter-company elimination
• Closing tasks in the monitors – data release, manual journal, validation, translation, elimination, etc.
• Reports - FIORI analytics & SAC stories
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Implementation

6. • Real-time
• Speeds up
the closing
• No need of an ETL
between
transaction system
and consolidation
system
SAP
S/4HANA
database
FS Items
• Financial
Statement Items
replace the
Group Chart of
Accounts
• Operating Chart
of Accounts not
affected
Validation
• Predefined rules
for automatic
interunit
eliminations and
data validation
• Local and group
closing share
the same
master data
and rules
Reporting
• User friendly
Fiori Reports
• Desired
breakdown
items
• Drill down
to
operational
accounting
Main Features

7. System Integration
• Dashboar
ds
• Planning
• Analytics
SAP Group
Reporting Data
Collection
• Non SAP sources
• Data entry
• Non-Financial data
SAP
Disclosure
Managemen
t
• Submit electronic
• Publish online
• Print
Group Reporting
Local Accounting
Group
Accounting
Universal
Journal

8. Basic Flow
DATA
COLLECTI
ON
• Direct
S/4HANA
access
• Integration with
non SAP
solutions
• Data Entry
• Validation
• Manual
adjustment
s
DATA
PREPARATI
ON
• Currency
conversio
n
• Intercompan
y
elimination
• Investment
consolidatio
n
• Versioning
&
Simulation
CONSOLIDATI
ON
• SAP
Group
Reporting
• SAP Analytics
Cloud
• Disclosure
Manag.
• Embedde
d
Analytics
• Analysis MS
Office
REPORTI
NG

9. Group Reporting in SAP S/HANA 1909
PROCESS FLOW IN SAP
S/4HANA
Data
Monitor
Intercompan
y
Reconciliatio
n
Consolidate
d
Monitor
Reportin
g
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10. 10
Conclusions

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